Scott Rutherford

 

Email:  ruthers@queensu.ca
Office:  A413 MacCorry
Office hours:  TBA

Education

PhD (History)—Queens University
MA (History)--University of Manitoba
BA (History)—University of Winnipeg

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About

My research and teaching concentrates on the post-1945 world. I am most interested in helping students better understand how people interpreted and experienced globally significant events and moments in this period, such as the Cold War and Decolonization. My own research explores the efforts of people, whether in organized movements or as individuals, to challenge differing forms of social, political and cultural repression in post 1945 Canada. To this effect I am currently working on a book, Canada's Other Red Scare, which explores the histories of Indigenous peoples protests in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s. I am also beginning a new project that will examine the efforts of various organizations in Canada (including those peoples from churches, solidarity groups, the Canadian government and Indigenous organizations) to aid refugees from Central America during the 1980s.

Courses Taught

HIST 122 –The Making of the Modern World
HIST 391 –The Global 1960s
HIST 211 -The Cold War (January 2013)
DEVS 491- Canada and the era of Decolonization (January 2013)